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Comment: Jenny Hjul: Class war hidden within clampdown on charities

I attended a meeting at my daughters’ school this week to hear how classes would be structured next year to accommodate the growing intake. It is a familiar theme in the private sector, where there is a premium on small classes but demand for places is ever buoyant.

Against a backdrop of population decline and a fall in total school numbers in Scotland, there are now more children in independent schools than there were 10 years ago. Perhaps it has something to do with the almost guaranteed good examination results, the sound discipline, lack of disruption and wealth of extracurricular activities. Perhaps it also has something to do with the lottery that can be state education these days, whereby your child’s success is largely dependent on where you live.

Whatever, more and more parents from all walks of life are choosing the private over the state option, choice still being